Synopsis
In this title, the author examines the startling implications of the digital revolution and how it is transforming the way we live. His belief is that all forms of media--text, voice, and video--are changing the fundamental way in which we view information. In the future he predicts that the real gap in society will not be economic, but between those who are fluent with digital tools like personal computers and online communications, and those who are not. In an optimistic tone, he describes this road map of digital change as a natural force that will draw people together for greater world harmony.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1996-01-01 | | Editor: | Marty Asher |
| Size | | Height: | 8.3 in | | Width: | 6.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 8.0 oz |
Publisher's Note
Being Digital decodes the mysteries and debunks the hype surrounding bandwidth, multimedia, virtual reality, and the Internet. It forecasts technologies that will make your telephone as context-sensitive as an English butler and replace TV broadcasters with intelligent "broadcatchers" that assemble and deliver only the programming you want. And this book suggests what being digital will mean for our laws, education, politics, and amusements - in short, for the way we live.
In lively, mordantly witty prose, Negroponte decodes the mysteries--and debunks the hype--surrounding bandwidth, multimedia, virtual reality, and the Internet, and explains why such touted innovations as the fax and the CD-ROM are likely to go the way of the BetaMax.
Industry Reviews
"Nicholas Negroponte is an engaging guide to the evolving new world. His prose is airy and conversational, and his enthusiasm for his topic all one could wish. Some readers may be troubled by a nonchalant lack of systematic exposition, but to read 'Being Digital' is to enter the future it describes, sort of like researching a topic on the Internet, following one's interests wherever fancy dictates."
New York Times Book Review - Samuel C. Florman (02/05/1995)
"Negroponte explains well what the digital approach is all about and gives many trenchant examples of its power."
Scientific American - Charles Herzfeld
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